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Petition (39 names) by the "cultivators of the soil and growers of wool" in the hundred of Newcastle, co. Glam., to the House of Commons, protesting against the importation of 26,799,367 bushels of foreign corn in 1818, duty free, and of 13 million pounds of foreign wool in three quarters of a year, at a duty of a halfpenny and a fraction per pound, when the petitioners are paying probably 30% taxes on everything they can grow. They pray for a committee of inquiry, and duties on the imports to bring their cost up to that of "the productions of the soil of the United Kingdom". Several of the signatories have the first name or the family name/patronymic 'David', Lord Ogmore's mother's maiden name.

Original file of letters from David to his parents, including on headed notepaper from the Adelphi Hotel, London (Aug.), P & O. S. N. Co., S. S. (Sept.-Oct), and Runnymede Hotel, Penang (Oct.), and thereafter with the forwarding address c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S. [=Straits Settlements].

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Original file of letters from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Desk diary of Major David Rees Williams, R.A., with administrative entries from 3 April, and narrative entries from 25 May, including "I am now to confine myself to [this?] Scarborough Battery as B.C." [=Battery Commander] (28 May). Enclosed is a telegram (2 pp.) requesting him to act as defending officer of a court martial of three men of 340 Coast Battery, R.A., Hythe, Kent, Dec. 1940.

Miscellaneous papers, including letters of administration of Tabitha Hopkins of Shop Farm, St Brides Major, co. Glam., d. 28 April 1930, granted to David Rees Williams as attorney of Edward Hopkins, now in the state of Alberta, Canada, brother of the intestate, 1930; a memorandum entitled 'Road signs & markings', listing [gipsy?] signs including 'A kind lady lives here', 'Tell the sob stuff', 'Beware of the dog' and 'Churchy', written on a page of Naval Message paper (form S.1320c, rev. Oct. 1935); an autograph poem, 'An ode to Miss Cxxx Mxxxxx' about the working day of Volunteer Skinner, signed and dated by David Rees Williams, Sept. 1939; a letter (in French) from Paul [Denreulenacry?], Civil Affairs Belgium, 41 Eaton Square, London, to 'Mon Major & cher Professeur', [1940x1946?]; and a signed poem (in French) 'Au Colonel Williams et Madame, ode de la France', 1946.

Desk diary of Lt-Col D. R. Rees-Williams MP, with daily entries.

Original file comprising Colonial Office memoranda by D. R. Rees-Williams, under-secretary of state for the colonies, on his visits to East Africa [Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Zanzibar], May 1948, and West Africa [Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone], Sept. 1948; also an unattributed and undated plan for the control of the tsetse fly in East Africa.

Desk diary of Lt-Col D. R. Rees-Williams MP, with daily entries.

Desk diary of D. R. Rees-Williams MP, with daily entries.

Original file of letters and telegrams of congratulations to Rees-Williams on his elevation to the peerage.

Carbon copies of D. R. Rees-Williams's memoranda, including matters relating to British Guiana, Burma, China, Croydon, Falkland Islands, the Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Malaya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Palestine, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanganyika and Uganda.

Printed material, including The London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1944, containing (p. 5532) notice of the intention of Williams, his wife and children to assume the surname Rees-Williams in lieu of Williams; The London Gazette, 14 July 1950, containing (p. 3622) notice of Lt-Col David Rees William-Rees's barony as Baron Ogmore, of Bridgend in the co. Glam.

Original file of letters and telegrams of congratulations to Rees-Williams on his elevation to the peerage.

Original file of letters, telegrams and cards of congratulations on Lt-Col D. R. Rees-Williams's elevation to the peerage.

Desk diary of D. R. Rees-Williams MP, with daily entries.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with daily entries.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days.